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Aki Tsuyuko’s Room In Commend ~ Out Now ~

Aki Tsuyuko’s Room In Commend is an invitation to wander. 

Recorded in June 2019, this solo performance by Japanese composer Aki Tsuyuko marks the fifth entry in Commend’s HERE series, a catalog of live performances shared with care from our small space to far beyond Forsyth St.

Aki Tsuyuko treats chords like imaginary companions and scales like maps through winding, wooded paths. Stroll through the countryside of childhood in “Village”; hop over a city park’s puddles with “Moriji”; and lay on a bed of infinite moss with “Solitary Tiger.”

Tsuyuko’s keys emanate vibrant, green reveries and provide a comforting sonic spell for lonely moments and drab mornings.

Learn more here.

April 17, 2020

Friends & Fiends w/ Anthony Moore

Tune out ~ Drop in. Our latest episode of Friends & Fiends w/ Anthony Moore is live in the archive.

ferrous oxide memories fe2O3 – ladbroke grove – gavin bryars – john tilbury – michael parsons – tape recorders – the great learning – hebrides – david larcher – exprmntl 5 Knokke-le-Zoute – salvatore sciarrino – raili viljakainen – uitti 2 bows – peter kowald and sainkho namchylak – monkey’s birthday – dervishes – turkey – saz – dertli divani – peter blegvad and the blue blues – bert jansch – sligo, ireland – yeats country – soundscapes – morning rain – early radio – india monsoon – kensington square – ny rvng frkwys – alexis – cologne -analogue electronics – circuit bending – the greyless woodpecker – those drones – the crazy elsa… (amoore arles 2020)

April 6, 2020

Greg Fox – Contact

An extension and evolution of Greg Fox’s rigorous, virtuosic sound-making practices, Contact, his first solo album since 2017’s The Gradual Progression, finds the multidisciplinary artist accessing ever more raw and ruminative states, processing the tumult of sentience into stick-hit-drum.

Today, Greg also launches a crowdfunding initiative to build a public-facing recording studio in his native state of New York. As Greg notes in his Kickstarter mission statement in light of the current global crisis, “I hope that if anything this campaign can be a source of encouragement to others. I believe in the future of music. I believe that we will find a way to get through this.” Complete info here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/studiote/help-launch-studio-te

Experience Michael A. Flanagan‘s visual expression of “From the Cessation of What” featuring artwork by Emma Kohlmann below:

Learn more here.

April 1, 2020

Kate NV – Room for the Moon


On Room for the Moon, Kate NV follows the muse of music from one chamber of illusion to the next, harmonizing lunar lullabies with a starry compositional choreography. Conjured from unlived memories of 70s and 80s Russian and Japanese pop music and film, Room for the Moon is a 20th century fairy tale suspended in time like a moon torn from a paper sky.


Learn more here.

March 18, 2020

Josey Rebelle – Josey In Space

Josey In Space, the second installment in Beats In Space‘s mix series, is out May 15 in LP, CD, and digital formats.

Drawing from a kaleidoscope of deeply felt and understood sounds, Josey’s twenty-track mix maps her personal history onto a collective trajectory in dance music. The 12” lifts four essential tracks from the story for DJ-ready use: brand new works from Fotomachine and Shy One, and stone cold classics from Access 58 and Rogue Unit.

Listen to Fotomachine’s “BBoy,” and learn more about Josey In Space, here.

March 17, 2020

Friends & Fiends w/ Sea Urchin

Kashif – The Mood (Sea Urchin edit)
Cheba Nouria – Goutlek c est fini (Sea Urchin edit)
Atlantis – The lost empire I (Sea Urchin edit, voice Leila Hassan)
Sea Urchin – Alekum salam
Gregory Isaacs – Slum in dub (additional guitar and edit Francesco Cavaliere)
Raggio di luna – Comanchero
Manzel – Midnight theme (Sea Urchin edit)
Atlantis – The lost empire II (Sea Urchin edit)
Soul 2 Soul – Feel Free (Sea Urchin edit)
Raggio di luna – Comanchero (2020 Sea Urchin edit)
Giorgio Moroder – (Theme From) Midnight Express (2020 Sea Urchin edit)
Franco Battito – il mito dell’ amore
world sounds compilation – Percussions of the world disc 2
Sea Urchin – Kiffen 2
Sapho – Souvenir d’ enfance (endi ou hida)
Djibril Diop Mambety – La Grammaire de ma Grand’mére
Donaway – Arpeggi Savana (Sea Urchin edit, additional bass guitar Francesco Cavaliere)
Sapho – Endi ou hida (additional sound effects and edit Francesco Cavaliere)
Mad Professor – Sahara dub
Leila Hassan – raml el ard / planet sand
Mel & Kim – Showing Out (Sea Urchin edit)
Tony Allen (ft. Damon Albarn) + Oliver Messiaen – Èclairs sur l’Au Delà (Sea Urchin edit, additional bass and guitar Francesco Cavaliere)
Cameo – Back and forth
Flowers – For Real
Raggio di luna – Comanchero (fuori tempo) (Sea Urchin edit)

March 5, 2020

RIYL-ty Bytes: Tashi Wada

Photo Credit: Dicky Bahto

Each month, we invite an artist from the cast of characters that color the RVNG, Beats In Space, and Freedom To Spend universe to compile a playlist of tracks that are resonating with them.

From Tashi Wada, to you ~ 

“Night Vision” — a mix of recent and older favorites from my ears to yours. Enjoy!


1. “Black Woman” – Sonny Sharrock
2. “Love Is a Jungle” – Peter Ivers
3. “Turiya & Ramakrishna” – Alice Coltrane
4. “Khaleek Bil Beit” – Fairouz
5. “For J.R.” – Lucy Railton
6. “Orchestral Memory” – Elodie Lauten
7. “Andromeda Memories” – Kyle Gann
8. “Words I Heard” – Julia Holter
9. “Your Sweet Love” – Lee Hazlewood
10. “Questions” – Annette Peacock
11. “What Reason Could I Give” – Ornette Coleman
12. “Watch Over This Boy” – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
13. “The Bells” – Lou Reed
14. “Enlightenment” – Sun Ra and His Astro-Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra

RIYL-ty Bytes is updated by a different artist each month. If you like something, save it to your library.

March 4, 2020

Lucrecia Dalt European Tour + Anticlines Repress

Lucrecia Dalt will tour throughout the EU & UK this month to support Jerusalem In My Heart. The dates are below are the best way to see Lucrecia share new music before the fall. We’ve finally re-pressed her 2018 album, Anticlines, with fresh copies shipping out immediately. Check the flyer below for details and dates, and head to the shop for a copy of Anticlines.

March 3, 2020